Land Use Data for Latitude 49.25 Longitude 5.75

Area size: .5 degrees latitude by .5 degrees longitude

Locations

Esch/Alzette South-east
ETANG DE LACHAUSSEE ET ZONES VOISINES
Etangs de la Woëvre: la Chaussée
FORETS ET ZONES HUMIDES DU PAYS DE SPINCOURT
Fresnes-en-Woëvre-Mars-la-Tour
Jarny - Mars-la-Tour
Val de Chiers et environs de Spincourt

Agricultural Land Uses

Forestry - Pastoralism if moderate or higher
Cropped Agriculture with intensive livestock
Urban land
Sparsely vegetated areas - Mod. intensive pastoralism

Ecosystems

Temperate humid

Livestock

Cattle
Pigs

Crops

Barley
Cereals and cereal products
Potatoes
Wheat

Growing Period (days)

180 to 209

Soil Types

Arenosols (Sandy)
Cambisols (Horizon differentiation in the subsoil evident from changes in structure, colour, clay content or carbonate content)
Fluvisols (Soils developed in alluvial deposits)
Luvisols

Terrain

Plain or plateau

Slopes (degrees)

2 to 5
5 to 8
8 to 16
16 to 30

Population Density (persons per km2)

0
2 to 10
10 to 50
50 to 250
above 250

Infant mortality (per 1000 live births)

2 to 5

Mineral Extraction

Site Name (Type)Minerals
Amermont MineIron
Amermont-Dommary (Underground)Iron
Arbed Mines (Surface-Underground)Iron
Bazailles (Underground)Iron
Burbach (Underground)Iron
Errouville (Underground)Iron
Ferdinand (Underground)Iron
Giraumont (Underground)Iron
Godbrange (Underground)Iron
Jarny (Underground)Iron
Joudreville (Underground)Iron
La Paix-Bassompierre (Underground)Iron
Mairy (Underground)Iron
Moineville (Underground)Iron
Piennes (Underground)Iron
Rodange-Athus (Surface-Underground)Iron
Serrouville (Underground)Iron

Agricultural use data provided by LADA, 2008. "Mapping Land Use Systems at global and regional scales for Land Degradation Assessment Analysis. Version 1.0" Nachtergaele F. & Petri M.
Mineral extraction data provided by USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS), downloaded June 2, 2010.